On 2m there are parts of the band plan for 'all mode' and 'fm'. The repeater allocation is small though so you'll get both modes up there. 70cm is different though. Huge band, everything has its place on there.

I'm with you sect1223, I too hope it materialises, sadly my coding skills don't expand to radio firmware, I am just waiting for a clever person to take up the reigns and release it to dullards like me.

It's 'proper' coding too, this guy is getting excited about the spare 200kb of memory that can be released by removing the Chinese character set, DSD+ is also just 132kb, I just updated Adobe Acrobat Pro which is just a fancy text editor, and I notice that it is 1.5gb!!!!!

It won't change my life if it happens, but I have a second 380 on order so as I can mess about with it, if in the near future some clever person releases hacked firmware that has promiscuous mode to bypass the TGs, time slots and maybe the CCs as well, then it will give me a very useful device as a lot of the 1000 channels will be released due to having to often use 2 channels to listen to one frequency. if an organisation uses a couple of frequencies then that's 4 channels gone to listen to 1 system.

Hopefully it will just be a firmware hack, I don't fancy J-tagging the set as my eyes aren't up to it, I still think DSD has a big future on small hardware like the Pi Zero inside conventional scanners, there's another thread by BB about that.

And for anyone who poo-poos digital, I did until recently, but I took the plunge and haven't had this much fun with my clothes on for a very long time.

Yes unfortunatly digital is here to stay but what system to purchase into, yeasu fusion or the icom dstar or just dmr 3 systems that cannot communicate with each other and apart from dmr very expensive. As i said its fragmenting the bands is this something that the under used amateur bands need.